New Colorado Mountain Bike Stage Race

October 5, 2008 · Filed Under Colorado Cycling, Mountain Bike 

While not official yet, it looks like Colorado will host a premier mountain bike stage race next year.  MB Word, the blog of mountainbike.com announced plans by promoter, Mike McCormack, to host “Breck Epic” next July.  Details apparently still need to be finalized before the official announcement and launch of the race web site at breckepic.com.

McCormack, whose previous involvement with other Colorado mountain bike races such as the Mountain States Cup series and G3 gravity series, brings the experience needed to launch a logistically-complex, multi-day stage race.  The focus of this 5-day race will be on quality.   From MB Word:

In a departure from point-to-point races like BC and TransRockies, the Breck Epic will use a “cloverleaf” model, with each day’s stage starting and finishing in Breckenridge. As McCormack explained it, that means a single campground, no transfers and the possibility of lodging…. offering a maximum of remote alpine singletrack and a minimum of pavement or even fire roads. “The Breck Epic is intended to be a rugged backcountry experience,” he said in his initial announcement. As part of that, McCormack cautions that the courses will be long, with 90 percent of the terrain above 10,000 feet in elevation, cut-off times strictly enforced and this is not the sort of event a weekend warrior should pick for his one-time-a-year extreme challenge.

Let’s hope for the best on this one.  We know Colorado has awesome mountain biking, and a race like this would bring the potential for one of the finest mountain bike races in the country.

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